Federal judge Sebastián Casanello processed former President Alberto Fernández on Wednesday for the crime of negotiations incompatible with the public function, within the framework of the Cause Seguros, a file that investigates a multi -million dollar scheme of corruption during his mandate. The resolution of more than 400 pages describes a “criminal structure” that directly directly hired public bodies, paying exorbitant commissions to private intermediaries, with an economic damage that resulted in a historical embargo: 14,634 million pesos.
This judicial ruling hits the ex -president fully and marks an unprecedented precedent: never before an Argentine president in democracy had received a embargo on such a magnitude for a case of corruption. The striking thing is that this figure is not consistent at all with its last assets declared in August 2023, which barely exceeded the 4.5 million pesos in registrable goods, together with modest income and credits.
The case originated after a Clarín investigation and was initially in the hands of Judge Julián Ercolini. The investigated maneuver reveals that Nation Seguros paid during the government of Fernández commissions to intermediaries for 3,364 million pesosmainly concentrated on three groups linked to the broker Héctor Martínez Sosa, personal friend and creditor of the former president. According to the ruling, Martínez Sosa’s company went from billing 151 thousand pesos in commissions in the three years prior to the assumption of Fernández, to receive almost 229 million pesos only in 2023. A growth that, for justice, responds to the addressing of contracts from the Casa Rosada.
Casanello pointed directly to Fernández as the creator of a context of “very high risk in the field of conflicting interests” by designating María Cantero, wife of Martínez Sosa, who according to the investigation used her privileged access to coordinate efforts and ensure the businesses of her family. “There was not only a probability forecast, but a decision to build the risk and not impose any barrier to unfaithful behavior,” said the magistrate.
The failure describes that 40 people They participated in the maneuver, operating between December 2019 and December 2023 to divert public funds through contracting contracts in state agencies. In addition, it highlights the use of co -eager in the policies of the ANSES and the participation of companies such as San Germán Seguros and San Cristóbal Mutual Sociedad, who perceived more than 3.3 billion pesos in total.
But the most shocking contrast is patrimonial. In his affidavit of August 2023, Fernández consigned a Toyota Corolla Xei Pack 2019 valued at 4,576,000 pesos, 21,629 pesos In a savings box in pesos and 0.02 cents In your foreign currency account. He also declared 50% of the shares of his ex -legal estate Callao SA for 84,149 pesos, a credit in his favor in that company for 2,020,000 pesos, household goods for 329,800 pesos, a loan with AFIP of 2,747,011 pesos and debts with his accountant Héctor Horacio Martínez Sosa for 102,240 pesos and with AFIP for 33,823 pesos. He also declared retirement funds for 1,398,180 pesos and, as income of 2021, a total of 9,825,500 pesos.
This heritage does not cover even the 0.1% of the judicial embargo arranged by Casanello. The judge warns that Fernández’s responsibility was not passive: “The evidence revealed a scenario completely opposite to the duty of probity: the confusion of interest predominated and the actors who had to ensure the public thing took advantage of their position to obtain particular advantages.”
The file advances with unusual speed in Comodoro Py, with testimonies, expert opinions and flows of money that compromise a former head of state that today, according to his official statement, does not have heritage capable of facing the fine that justice imposed.
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